Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American film actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith .

Griffith began working in films at an early age as an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). Her first major role was in Night Moves in 1975. Other major roles include Body Double (1984), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Milk Money (1994), Another Day in Paradise (1998) and Cecil B. DeMented (2000).

Griffith has married four times. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She remarried Johnson in 1989. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. Griffith has three children; Dakota Johnson, Alexander Bauer, and Stella Banderas.

Sex scandal allegations

In her book A Paper Life , the Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal alleges that at age 12, Melanie Griffith dragged her into an opium-fuelled Censored page in Paris, along with another actress and the boyfriend of one of the actresses.

External links

• Official site http://www.melaniegriffith.com
• Melanie Griffith http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000429/ at the Internet Movie Database